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Booster K1 Booster Robotics
95 cm
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Booster K1
Shipping 2025 Business & Consumer
Compact 95 cm bipedal humanoid development platform from Booster Robotics, starting at $5,999 with up to 200 TOPS onboard compute.
Overview
The Booster K1 is a 95 cm, 19.5 kg bipedal humanoid positioned as an entry-level embodied-AI development platform. It offers 22 degrees of freedom (6 per leg, 4 per arm, 2 head), a 3D depth camera, 9-axis IMU and microphone array, with three compute tiers from 48 up to 200 TOPS and battery options giving roughly 30 to 80 minutes of runtime. Booster lists it from $5,999 on its official site, with orders placed through the Buy Now/store inquiry flow and typical delivery in a few weeks. It targets schools, research labs and developers, building on Booster's RoboCup-winning locomotion stack.
Use cases
Education Robotics research Embodied-AI development
Capability evidence
- RoboCup soccer championship hardwareK1 robots powered both finalists in the KidSize Humanoid League at RoboCup 2025 in Salvador, where HTWK Leipzig beat Tsinghua's TH-MOS 11-0. heise online ↗ · 2025-07
- Autonomous soccer playBooster's demo runs a YOLO-v8 vision system, a decision 'brain' and a game-controller module so the K1 autonomously detects ball, robots and field and executes visual kicks to play full matches. Booster Robotics (GitHub) ↗ · 2025-07
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